Will taking diet pills cause bad breath? What causes bad breath?

For a long time, weight loss pills have been a controversial drug, and the academic community has never reached a final conclusion on its pros and cons. Although the safety of weight loss drugs has been gradually improved, there are still certain side effects. Most weight loss pills act on the gastrointestinal tract, so side effects such as bad breath and dry mouth are inevitable.

1. Will taking diet pills cause bad breath?

Because most weight loss pills act on the stomach and intestines, preventing fat from being absorbed in the small intestine and directly excreting it from the body, which leads to the formation of fecal reefs, and the final manifestation is bad breath. If bad breath occurs, you should stop taking the diet pills and drink more water.

2. Causes of Bad Breath

1. Oral diseases: People with oral diseases such as caries, gingivitis, periodontitis, oral mucositis, tooth decay, and periodontal disease are prone to the growth of bacteria in their mouths, especially anaerobic bacteria, which decompose to produce sulfides, emit a corrupt smell, and cause bad breath.

2. Gastrointestinal diseases, such as peptic ulcer, chronic gastritis, functional dyspepsia, etc., may be accompanied by bad breath. Recently, we have also found that people infected with Helicobacter pylori, which causes many gastric diseases, have a significantly higher incidence of bad breath than those who are not infected. After the eradication of Helicobacter pylori, the symptoms of bad breath are significantly alleviated. The reason may be that Helicobacter pylori infection directly produces sulfides, causing bad breath.

3. People who smoke, drink alcohol, drink coffee, and often eat spicy foods such as onions, garlic, leeks, or are addicted to stinky foods such as stinky tofu and stinky eggs are also prone to bad breath.

4. Drugs that can reduce saliva secretion, such as certain sedatives, antihypertensive drugs, atropine-type drugs, diuretics, and traditional Chinese medicines with warming and tonic effects.

5. Long-term constipation can cause harmful substances produced in the body to fail to be excreted in time and be absorbed into the blood, causing bad breath, abdominal distension, loss of appetite, irritability and other symptoms of self-poisoning.

6. Dinner is too "heavy", eating too much or eating too much meat or greasy food or using too much spicy and irritating seasoning, too much strong flavor and not enough light food, dinner is too close to sleep, too much food is left in the stomach when sleeping, etc.

7. Excessive psychological pressure and frequent mental tension cause the body's parasympathetic nerves to be in an excited state, which reflexively leads to a decrease in the secretion of the digestive glands, especially the salivary glands, causing dry mouth, which is conducive to the growth of anaerobic bacteria and produces bad breath.

If bad breath is caused by oral diseases, symptomatic treatment is needed to eliminate it; if bad breath is caused by lifestyle habits, proper conditioning can solve the problem.